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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2010
Kiyotaka Murashima, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyasu Toyooka, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiko Homma, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryuichiro Sato, Kanagawa, JP;
Keitaro Iwai, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyotaka Murashima, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyasu Toyooka, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiko Homma, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryuichiro Sato, Kanagawa, JP;
Keitaro Iwai, Kanagawa, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A spliced optical cable assembly is reinforced at a spliced portion of coated optical fibers to have adequate strength. The spliced optical cable assembly includes: a pair of optical fiber cables in which high-strength fibers are aligned in the longitudinal direction around coated optical fibers. The outer circumference of the coated optical fibers being covered by sheaths. The spliced optical cable assembly further includes a connecting portion in which the pair of optical fiber cables are connected and the coated optical fibers extend from the sheaths. Glass fibers exposed from the coating of the coated optical fibers spliced to each other. The connected portion is covered and formed into an integral unit, together with the high-strength fibers exposed from the sheaths, by a reinforcing tube placed over the optical fiber cables and caused to contract so that both ends of the reinforcing tube engage the sheaths of the respective optical fiber cables.